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hereupon

hereupon adverb: immediately afterwards; at this.

Adverb

hereupon (not comparable)

  1. Immediately afterwards; at this.
    • Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their...1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Great Climactericall Year, that is, Sixty Three”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]...
    • Again, be it that some nocive or hurtful thing be towards us, must Fear of necessity follow hereupon?[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

hereupon meaning in Urdu

hereupon in Urdu

hereupon
اس پر, اس کے فوراً بعد is ke fauran bād

Examples of hereupon in a sentence

  • Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Great Climactericall Year, that is, Sixty Three”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […]...
  • Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:

Origin of hereupon

From here + upon. Spelled as two words before the 16th century.

Questions about hereupon

What does hereupon mean?
Hereupon means immediately afterwards; at this.
What is hereupon in Urdu?
Hereupon in Urdu is اس پر, اس کے فوراً بعد (is ke fauran bād). See Hereupon meaning in Urdu.
How do you use hereupon in a sentence?
Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.
What part of speech is hereupon?
Hereupon is an adverb.

Words near hereupon in the dictionary

  1. heretrix
  2. heretrixes
  3. hereunder
  4. hereunto
  5. hereuntofore
  6. hereupon
  7. herever
  8. Hereward
  9. herewith
  10. herewithal
  11. herewithin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hereupon (page history and authors); اس پر (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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